Deadline: 5th October 2023
Applications are now open for the Harvard Radcliffe Scholarship 2024/2025 . The Radcliffe Scholars Programme awards 50 scholarships each academic year. Radcliffe Fellows are scientists, writers, academics, public intellectuals and artists themselves whose work is making a difference in their professional fields and the wider world.
Based in Radcliffe Yard - a sanctuary in the heart of Harvard University - fellows join a unique interdisciplinary and creative community. A fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from the usual routines and dive deep into a project. With access to Harvard's unrivalled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and academic conventions and illuminate the Institute's past and present.
They welcome proposals relevant to the Institute's focus areas, which include:
- Reflecting Radcliffe's unique history and institutional legacy, they welcome proposals that focus on women, gender and society or draw on the rich collections of the Schlesinger Library.
- Climate change and its human impacts, especially projects that address the disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis on marginalised or under-resourced communities
- Legacies of slavery
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- Scholars receive a grant of US$ 78,000 plus an additional US$ 5,000 to cover project expenses. Please note that if you are a US citizen or permanent resident coming from a US-based home institution, you can choose to have your scholarship paid through your home institution or to you directly.
- Harvard Radcliffe Fellows may also be eligible to receive relocation funds, housing and childcare to help them make a smooth transition to Radcliffe. Healthcare support is available as needed. If fellows wish to hire Harvard undergraduate students as research partners, they will cover their hourly wages.
Eligibility
Candidates in the humanities and social sciences must:
- Have received their doctorate (or appropriate terminal degree) in the area of the proposed project at least two years prior to their appointment as a scholarship holder (December 2022 for the 2024-25 scholarship year).
- Have published a monograph or at least two articles in refereed journals or edited collections.
Candidates in science, engineering and maths must:
- Have received their doctorate in the area of the proposed project at least two years before their appointment as a scholarship holder (December 2022 for the 2024-25 scholarship year).
- Have published at least five articles in refereed journals. Most science, engineering and maths fellows have published dozens of articles.
Applicants in the creative arts must meet the discipline-specific eligibility requirements as described below:
- Film and Video: Candidates in this discipline should have a body of independent work of significant achievement. These works will normally have been exhibited in galleries or museums, screened at film or video festivals or broadcast on television.
- Visual Arts: Candidates for this discipline must present strong evidence of achievement, with a track record of at least five years of work as a professional artist, including participation in several curated group shows and at least two professional solo exhibitions.
- Fiction and Non-Fiction: Candidates in these disciplines must have one of the following:
- one or more published books;
- a contract for the publication of a book-length manuscript; or
- at least three shorter works (longer than newspaper articles) published.
- Poetry: Candidates for this subject must have published at least 20 poems in the last five years or published a book of poetry and must be in the process of completing a manuscript.
- Journalism: Candidates in this discipline must have worked professionally as a journalist for at least five years.
- Dramaturgy: Candidates in this discipline should have a significant body of independent work on the form. This will most typically include plays produced or under option.
- Music Composition: It is desirable, but not compulsory, for music composition candidates to have a PhD or DMA. Most importantly, the candidate should present strong evidence of achievement as a professional artist, with a record of recent performances.
Former Harvard Radcliffe Fellows (1999-present) are not eligible to apply.
Application
- The deadline for applications in the humanities, social sciences and creative arts is 14 September 2023.
- The deadline for science, engineering and maths applications is 5 October 2023.
The application consists of an application form, curriculum vitae, project proposal (with bibliography where appropriate), a text or work sample and the contact details of three references who will be asked, via email, to send letters of recommendation in support of your application.
For more information, visit Harvard Radcliffe Scholarship .
